Following the comments there is generally a two-stage process comprising the " Admissibility " stage and the " Merits " stage, however, due to the immense workload that the United Nations Human Rights Committee has, these two stages are usually undertaken simultaneously.

In the Storytelling System, playable supernatural characters are created by applying a template to the character during character creation, before Merits or Experience.

Merits are special beneficial abilities and strengths a character may possess.

In the Storyteller System, Merits are optional, are purchased with bonus points and have costs ranging from 1 to 7 points.

Merits for the living are also earned by the release of birds and fish.

Merits, Awards and Ranking ; The levels of the National Ski Patrol are 1. Auxiliary 2. Patroller ( Basic ) 3. Senior 4. Certified.

Merits are awarded to students who receive a score of 20 out of 20 in individual subjects in their Stage 2 SACE results.

Merits can be earned by defeating Sellbots anywhere in Toontown, but more are earned by a successful run through the factory.

Merits awarded also count for a pupil's house, with the house cup being awarded each year to the house with the most.

National Arts Merits Award ( NAMA ) for being the most outstanding female artist in the music industry and for being the ambassador of the Zimbabwean culture.

Since 1999, in collabration with the Union des artistes ( UDA ), the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois ( UNEQ ) and the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma ( SARTEC ), the OQLF awards the Mérites du français dans la culture ( French Merits in culture ).

In collaboration with Québec Ministry of Immigration, it awards the Mérites en francisation des nouveaux arrivants ( Merits in Francization of new immigrants ).

As well as President of the Chemical Society in Japan from 1983-84, receiving multiple awards aside from his Nobel Prize such as ; Japan Academy Medal in 1962, Person of Culture Merits in 1981, Imperial Honour of Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1988, with many other awards not quite as prestigious.

Military decorations: the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, two Distinguished Service Crosses, three Navy Distinguished Service Medals, two Silver Stars, two Legion of Merits with Combat V, two Purple Hearts, three Combat Action Ribbons, the French Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Conduct Star.

Liber vitae meritorum (" Book of Life's Merits " or " Book of the Rewards of Life ") and Liber divinorum operum (" Book of Divine Works ", also known as De operatione Dei, " On God's Activity ") followed.

* ICJ Nicaragua v. Colombia ( Preliminary Objections ) and ( Merits ) and 2007 Preliminary Objections Judgment and ASIL and BBC and Colombia President and Colombia MFA and Analysis 20 Hague YIL 75-119 2008

* January 27 – Pope Clement VI issues his Bull Unigenitus, defining the doctrine of " The Treasury of Merits " or " The Treasury of the Church " as the basis for the issuance of indulgences by the Catholic Church.

* Volgyesi, F. A., " James Braid's Discoveries and Psycho-Therapeutic Merits ", British Journal of Medical Hypnotism, Vol. 3, No. 4, ( 1952 ), pp. 2 – 10.

Augustine wrote four letters specifically on Pelagianism, " De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III " ( Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins ) in 412, " De spiritu et litera " ( On the Spirit and the Letter ) and " Definitiones Caelestii " ( Caelestius's Definitions ) in 414, and " De natura et gratia " ( On Nature and Grace ) in 415.

* Lecture by Stephen M. Schwebel entitled The Merits ( and Demerits ) of International Adjudication and Arbitration in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Prunariu was awarded the Medal for Merits in Space Exploration by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Moscow Kremlin on 12 April 2011.

In the Storytelling System, starting characters get 7 Dots to purchase Merits.

Some Merits apply to certain Attributes and provide a bonus when using them.

In the Storytelling System, Backgrounds have been absorbed into Merits.

Wrote The Railroad To the Pacific, Northern Route, Its General Characteristics, Relative Merits, Etc.

The " Merits of Space " program provides 5 Merit Badges during a five-day residential camp.

In 1996, he was awarded the medal " For Merits to Motherland " of the 2nd degree.

He was awarded the Order of Cultural Merits and the Order of Merit of the First Class.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.